(5,800-word big chapter, too lazy to divide the chapters, please bear with it...)

In the cold winter, the northern border of the Jinyan Prefectures was full of beacons and wolf smoke everywhere.

The demon barbarians not only invaded Hexi, Tianshui, Yongliang and other counties, but even Heishan, located in the depths of the vast desert, there were constant demon barbarian soldiers appearing after winter. By the end of the year, tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers gathered in the depths of the sand sea north of Heishan, which made the Jingjue Protectorate's Mansion panic and the situation was grim.

On the last day of the year, Heishan City welcomed a group of guests with unusual identities, a group of elite Ye tribes led by the Western Qiang king Ye Qinglin, who rushed over to reinforce Heishan.

The Heishan Mountain hangs alone in the desert, which is actually a barrier to the northern part of the Western Qiang Kingdom. If the demon barbarian soldiers can be blocked in Heishan, Moyue Lake, and the north of the Demon Cliff, the Western Qiang Kingdom can enjoy peace.

In the banquet hall of the Jingjue Protectorate Mansion, the atmosphere of the banquet was warm and cleansed Ye Qinglin.

"Madam, this time, the Longxiang Army defeated the demon barbarians in Hengshan, and killed 20,000 enemies in front of the formation, and pursued them for more than a thousand miles. The news should have reached Heishan, right?" Ye Qinglin sat in the upper head, and after a greeting, he asked Dong Ning with a smile.

The Western Qiang is tens of thousands of miles away from Hexi in the east, but there are usually Linghu messages, and the information flows smoothly.

When Dong Ning heard someone praise Chen Hai, he was naturally happy, but he still didn't show any expression on the surface, but just followed Ye Qinglin's tone and said: "Mr. Chen has always done amazing things. The king has been in contact with him for a long time, so he naturally is no wonder!"

Although he had known that the nominal niece-in-law in front of him had a close relationship with Chen Hai and had a secret style, Dong Ning could not suppress his eyebrows when he mentioned Chen Hai's name with his own eyes, and Ye Qinglin still secretly hated him.

It was because Chen Hai interfered with it, which made him unable to completely regain all the territory of the Western Qiang Kingdom, and even had to accept that the power of the Taiwei Sect and the Demon Temple penetrated deeper into every corner of the Western Qiang Kingdom, causing the Ye family to be emptied to a considerable extent. It was just the royal family in the name of the Western Qiang Kingdom, and many national policies were subject to the outside world.

Ye Qinglin was determined to be the hero, but the many controls from all parties in the past two or three years of his reign have caused him to feel too much dissatisfaction, and he has even forgotten the greatest efforts that Chen Hai made to restore the country. However, no matter how much dissatisfied he felt in his heart, he suppressed it. He knew that the Ye family could not reverse the general trend of the three families co-governance formed by the Pinglu Oasis at this time.

Ye Qinglin personally led the elite troops to help this time, and still asked Dong Ning for help. He did not dare to show his dissatisfaction. He just smiled a few times and then asked: "I heard that the newly-made heavy-bore crossbow of the Tianji Academy will be more prosperous in this battle than the previous Tianji combat crossbow. His wife has a close relationship with the Tianji Academy. I wonder if she can ask for help to prepare for the Western Qiang to recover Changle in the future."

After the battle of Yuchi City, Chen Hai handed over some of the Tianji Crossbows and several light Tianji Warriors to the Ye family (this was also one of the transaction conditions arranged at that time). As a weapon to conquer the country, Ye Qinglin cherished it very much, but judging from the information sent back by Tianshui at this time, the heavy-bore crossbow improved on the basis of the Tianji Crossbow was even more powerful.

In the battle of Yuchi City, he truly realized the power of Tianji war equipment, and all of this was urgently hoped to get the supply of heavy crossbows. Of course, he also wanted to test the Tianji Academy and his attitude towards Changle City and the Demon God Temple behind Changle City.

The crowd of people accompanying the banquet in the hall looked at their noses, their noses, their mouths, and their hearts without saying a word.

Only then did Dong Ning realize that Ye Qinglin, the king of the country, was the real idea of ​​leading troops to help, and said with a frown, "The Tianji Academy treats all the families equally. If the king has any requirements, he can directly send someone to the Tianji Academy to promote it. Jingjue Protectorate also benefited from the Tianji Academy many things. In addition, I also have a slight word. If I pass the message in the middle, it will probably disappoint the king."

Chen Hai's layout in the Western Qiang Kingdom was to maintain the balance between the Jingjue Protectorate, the three families of the Western Qiang Ye family and Changle City in the Pinglu Oasis. It would be fine if the Ye family did not regain the ambition of Changle City. Since they had the intention of starting a heavy battle, Chen Hai would definitely not provide the heavy crossbow to the Ye family.

Dong Ning naturally refused Ye Qinglin directly, so that his ambition would be irresistible. He advised: "I think Chen Hou may not want to see the king raise a slight attack on Changle City."

"Hmph! Could it be that you are not afraid to fight a war without your good looks. Besides, to conquer Changle City, there are naturally the benefits of Jingjue Protectorate!" A young man in his twenties beside Ye Qinglin said dissatisfied and arrogantly.

"Rareless!" Fan Dachun originally thought that Dong Ning would deal with Ye Qinglin, but when he heard the young man's words were frivolous and insulted Chen Hai, he couldn't help but draw his sword out of the sheath and cut him.

The young man did not act as a stance. With a change of mind, the protective spirit sword was automatically unsheathed, barely holding the powerful sword. However, his soul was trembling and bleeding from his seven orifices. However, Fan Dachun did not want to let go of the arrogant and unrestrained Ye clan, destroying the giant sword, and continuing to slash the head of the man.

At this time, a maid was walking to the front of the hall with a tea tray. When she was about to enter the stairs, she heard the sound of clanging inside the hall. When she looked up, she saw the swords in the hall being tense. In panic, the tea tray fell to the ground with a splattering amber tea.

"Random!" Ye Qinglin was very upset and rushed the young Ye tribe beside him who could not understand the situation out of the hall with one palm, so as not to be killed by Fan Dachun with a sword, and there was no place to seek justice. He apologized to Dong Ning, "Ye's arrogant man is really ignorant of politeness and has no restraint. If you offend him, I hope your wife will forgive her for her crime!"

"Forget it, my Dong family helped you restore the country, and Chen Hai also helped a lot, but he didn't want to get what he was today. I will not blame today for what happened today, but if I still have such rudeness, the Jingjue Protectorate will never endure it silently. Please go back to the post house to rest." Dong Ning has always been gentle, but he did not expect that the Ye clan members around Ye Qinglin had no respect for her.

It sounds like this kid is arrogant and ignorant, but it’s just conceivable that Ye Qinglin himself is behind her and what is his attitude towards the Jingjue Protectorate? Dong Ning was so angry that his pretty face was twisted and his silver teeth were biting. He had no intention of having Ye Qinglin Xu and asked him to leave the hall directly.

Ye Qinglin was also embarrassed and had to take his entourage away from the hall first. However, he did not return to the post house to rest, but went directly to the camp outside Heishan City.

Fan Dachun, Han Qingyuan and others sighed slightly.

When Chen Hai left, although he left the arrangement of three families to jointly govern Pinglu, some hidden dangers were not eliminated. Ye Qinglin and the Ye clan members were still very unwilling to accept it. At this moment, they all began to worry that Ye Qinglin would personally lead the elite Ye clans to come over to reinforce them, and perhaps they would have to go through Lucheng to make more defense.

Seeing that Dong Ning was in a bad mood, Fan Dachun, Han Qingyuan and others also said goodbye and left.

Only Dong Ning was left in the empty hall, and she looked extremely thin with the plaque of diligent officials and respectful virtuous people. After a while, she sighed and a ray of light rose from Jingjue Mansion and headed towards the back mountain of Heishan.

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Pressing Guanghua and Wu Cheng, who returned directly from Guanhe City to Huayangling, landed in front of Guanghua Cave at the foot of the main peak of Huayangling.

There were disciples who served around. When they saw Wu Cheng coming, they saluted each other. Wu Cheng did not answer and went straight to the hall to pay homage to his brother, Wu En, who was also the leader of the Wu family, went there.

"Chen Hai defended Hengshan City for 30,000 people? He chased for more than a thousand miles and had already built a village in Tongkou Town, Ling, Yucheng?" Wu En, the leader of the Wu clan, was now wearing a plain robe and sitting cross-legged on the cushion.

He was also shocked when he heard the news from Wu Cheng.

As the leader of the Wu family, Wu En entered the late stage of Daodan for more than 40 years, but in order to prove the Taoist fetus realm, he had not been concerned about the world for many years. He neither served as the county maid of Tianshui County or the commander of the Duwei County, nor did he take charge of the Huayang Sect, because he also knew that if he did not enter the Tianbang, when the situation in Yanzhou became increasingly complicated, Huayang Sect would never have the right to speak.

"The latest news is that Chen Hai only led 6,000 soldiers in the Fourth Battle Battalion of the Longxiang Army. He set up an ambush at Yandang Lake. He did not even use heavy crossbows and other powerful weapons. He killed thousands of elite demon barbarians in the field," Wu Cheng said worriedly: "At present, the Longxiang Army is in Tianshui County and has an unparalleled reputation. There are signs in various places that criticize the timid battles of our Wu and Zhou clans. If this continues, it is probably to shake the foundation of our Huayang clan."

Wu En gasped and couldn't make a sound for a long time. Unexpectedly, the combat power of Longxiang Camp would be so terrifying. Liao Yunkui ignored Wu Cheng and Zhou Tong's dissuasion and directly led his direct combat power to Tonghekou to fight with Longxiang Camp in cooperation. The impact of this matter is probably even worse.

Seeing that there was nothing we could do, Wu Cheng was silent. For a moment, there was silence in the monastery. Only the breeze blew through the wind chimes beside the window, jingling.

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Dong Shou had just finished his daily affairs and rubbed his eyebrows.

Although he was now restraining several combat powers in Hexi on the eastern front of Hechuan County, the relationship between the clan and the clan was complicated. In addition, although the Helan Sword Sect had been forced into a desperate situation, the centipede worm died without being stiff, and the occupied area had never been peaceful, which made Dong Shou feel irritable. Especially in the past few days, the frequent news on the Hengshan line made him feel even more troubled. In just a few days, several low-ranking servants were executed by him directly for various faults.

After serving the tea bowl of blue and white porcelain, I found that the tea soup had already been cold. I frowned and was about to get angry. But I forgot that a maid was kicked to death by him a few days ago because she changed tea too frequently.

At this moment, footsteps rang out of the tent, and the guards submitted another secret letter.

After a rough sweep, Dong Shou was so angry that he threw the teacup in his hand, and told Chen Lie, Jie Quanting and others to come to discuss matters.

Chen Lie was at Wangxi Peak, the farthest distance from Dong Shou. When he pressed the green scale thunder eagle and landed in front of the White Tiger Hall where Dong Shou discussed the matter, several people had arrived in the meeting hall.

"Chen Lie, please take a look at this secret letter first." Dong Shou handed him a secret letter several feet away.

Chen Lie looked at Jie Quanting and others in confusion. Seeing that the few people were expressionless, he didn't know why Dong Shou insisted on summoning him. You must know that although he was controlled by Dong Shou on the Eastern Front, Dong Shou was too lazy to see him in the past two years.

Chen Lie then lowered his head and read the secret letter carefully, and his heart became clear.

It was getting late, and soldiers had already lit up the lights.

The lights were clear and the faces of several people in the tent were clear and unstable. No one took the initiative to discuss the great achievements Chen Li had just made in the secret letter.

"What do you think of this heavy crossbow?" Dong Shou asked with a sinister face.

Jie Quanting looked around and saw that no one spoke, and coughed lightly and said, "The Heavenly Ji Crossbow has changed the traditional battlefield situation. The heavy-bore crossbow is actually better than the Tian Ji Crossbow. The wilderness barbarian elephant in the northern border is often driven to attack the city. Everyone is familiar with it. It has thick skin and strong flesh and extremely powerful vitality. None of the ordinary Mingjiao period can be killed with one blow, but in front of the eighteen heavy-bore crossbows, more than two hundred barbarian elephants did not cross a distance of two thousand steps. It is really unimaginable. Just based on the power of shooting and killing, it may take forty to fifty Tian Ji Crossbows to achieve this step. The more important thing is this heavy crossbow bullet..."

Jie Quanting showed the heavy crossbow bullet with a severely deformed sharp edge bullet after the spy was brought back, and it was shown to everyone that Jie Quanting didn't need to explain it carefully. Everyone could understand the advantages of heavy crossbow bullets.

The gold quenching iron consumed by each heavy crossbow bullet is actually only one-fifth of the heavy crossbow arrow.

During the battle of Hechuanling, Hexi secretly prepared for several years, and concentrated all the material resources of the three counties in Hexi to secretly reserve one million heavy crossbows and start a war against Hexiang Army.

If you can get the secret map of the heavy crossbow early, it will not only mean that Hexi can directly create a heavy crossbow with stronger drilling power, but also reserve five to six million heavy crossbow bullets before the war.

What is the concept at this time? This actually means that they had the ability to conquer Qinshan County and Tianshui County in one fell swoop and establish a real and authentic northwest overlord, rather than delaying until now, they could not completely digest Hechuan County.

Especially the Musashi Army and the Tianshui County soldiers began to equip Tianji Crossbows, and the battles in the future were difficult to fight.

Including Dong Shou and Jie Quanting, no one in the account believed that Chen Hai had improved step by step from Tianji crossbow to heavy crossbow. They only believed from the bottom of their heart that Chen Hai always had reservations about Hexi. The things they gave to Hexi before were only second-level and inferior, and the real good things were always held in Chen Hai's own hands.

"Chen Lie, your nephew's wings are also hard. If not, he wouldn't have shown such a weapon. He also thought he wouldn't have used it for Hexi and Taiwei Sect anymore, but he would also ask you to write a letter to him and ask if this heavy crossbow can be used for my Hexi?"

Chen Lie's heart trembled and said, "Horse Dong, Chen Hai has always been stubborn. He has been at the gate of Yanran Palace before, but he has any concern for his nephew and uncle? He is now getting richer and stronger. He is afraid he won't listen to what I say."

After Chen Lie answered, he never spoke again.

Dong Shou knew that Chen Lie was the person his father valued, and he could not force him to do anything, so he felt depressed. At this moment, a maid came to serve tea, and he scolded angrily: "I have been asked to serve tea soup for a long time, why is it so late?" With a palm, the maid didn't even have time to scream out of the tent, and she lost her life in the air.

Chen Lie looked at the soldiers who were hurriedly packing the bodies outside the tent, and his heart was filled with coldness.

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In a side hall in Yanran Palace, there are golden carvings and jade, sandalwood fragrance, and a royal atmosphere.

Wen Boyuan, Zhao Zhong and others sat side by side in this side hall, and the teacup in front of them had already become cold.

Sitting opposite them, there was a young man with tender skin in gorgeous clothes, with a pair of peach blossom eyes, and his eyes were filled with charming charm, which made Wen Boyuan and Zhao Zhong dare not look at him.

"Mr. Zhao, Lord Wen, the Emperor asked me, if you bombard you with a heavy crossbow, how long can you two last?" asked the young man in China.

"Although the heavy crossbow has the power to penetrate the stone with gold, it is still a little less powerful to those who are successful in Taoist elixirs." Zhao Zhong said disapprovingly.

"From Tianji Crossbow to Heavy Breeze Crossbow, how much power has increased and how much weight has been reduced, how many years have passed in the middle?" asked the young man in the Chinese-style clothing, "If three or five years later, Tianji Academy will release another new combat crossbow and hundreds of sharp soldiers will hold on, will you two still have the confidence to avoid it?"

Zhao Zhong and Wen Boyuan were all stunned. They thought that the heavy-bore crossbow would continue to increase its power and fire rate. At that time, thousands of devices would be launched together, and the crossbow bullets would be covered with overwhelming coverage. Except for the Taoist tyranny realm that can escape from the momentary front, they would be really irresistible. But will the Tianji Academy create a more powerful combat crossbow in three to five years?

"If Tianji Academy loses control, it will definitely be a disaster for us and mystic cultivation in the future. Lord Zhao and Lord Wen, think about it early!" said the young man in the gorgeous clothes.

Wen Boyuan and Zhao Zhong fell silent. It can be said that Chen Hai was promoted by both of them and also granted generals and military power. Of course, Chen Hai also made great contributions to them. Without Chen Hai's help, the Guards would not be able to control the situation in Yanjing.

Even the secret pictures such as heavy crossbows, Fengyan Airships, etc. Chen Hai offered them over immediately. What other excuses can they have to fight for control of the Tianji Academy? How could Chen Hai let this side ask for help and not resist at all?

Is it really time to move the last move?

Wen Boyuan remembered the Gu Soul Pill. Although the Gu Soul Pill can control the souls of others, it has greatly harmed the souls of the controlled person. Wen Boyuan felt a little reluctant to take this last step at this time.

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Although it was getting late, Dong Ning didn't want to go back at all. He lingered in the cave where Chen Hai lived before. Looking at the lifelike murals in front of him, thinking about the hideousness of the blood cloud wasteland, then remembering Chen Hai, gritting his teeth and muttering to himself: "I don't know who he is happy with at this time. I would have known that he would have castrated him!" He couldn't help but smile.

The beauty is independent and slightly frowned. Even if I don’t go, wouldn’t Zi not come?

After a familiar trance, Dong Ning was pulled into the blood cloud wasteland again. The next moment he saw Chen Hai's puppet clone, which was still so hideous and terrifying, but Dong Ning couldn't express joy in his heart.

In order to defend without dead corners, the Rakshasa blood demon even had a thick scale on his face, and there was almost no expression. Dong Ning wanted to reach out and touch Chen Hai's face, but Yao Laogen rushed over, and the wind brought by him almost dispersed her.

Only then did Dong Ning save himself from being a beauty at this moment, but a fictitious figure condensed by his soul.

Chen Hai waved his hand and asked Yao Laogen and others to retreat, and walked out with Dong Ning's hand.

Although I held the rough and exposed hand, I couldn't feel any temperature.

After all, there is no physical body and no sense of the six consciousnesses, Dong Ning sighed softly in his heart!
To be continued...